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Cambridge University Press The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press The Coerced Conscience
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Cambridge University Press Darwin Mythology
Book SynopsisThis concise, accessible and engaging collection debunks the myths and corrects the falsehoods surrounding one of the most famous scientific figures in history Charles Darwin. Leading scholars examine his life and work to set the historical record straight, and to draw conclusions about the very nature of science itself.
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Cambridge University Press Darwin Mythology
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Cambridge University Press The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Becoming International
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Cambridge University Press Visions of Greater India
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Cambridge University Press Boredom
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on Virtue
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on Suffering
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Cambridge University Press Heidegger and Kierkegaard
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Cambridge University Press Heidegger on Religion
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Cambridge University Press Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague
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Cambridge University Press Justice in Platos Republic
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on Education
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Cambridge University Press Ethnos of the Earth
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Cambridge University Press Geographies of Renewal
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on Virtue
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Cambridge University Press Heideggers Concept of Science
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Cambridge University Press Intellectual Postfascism
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception
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Cambridge University Press The Intellectual Thought of AlGhazali
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Cambridge University Press The Invention of Technology
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Cambridge University Press Heidegger on Poetic Thinking
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche on Suffering
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Cambridge University Press The Fall of the Tang
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Citizenship and Poverty
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Cambridge University Press Leaping Decolonization
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Cambridge University Press Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought. Topics include the vocabulary of politics, the practice of politics, the politics of value, and the extension of constitutional order to relations with animals, gods and the cosmos.Trade Review'… a superbly and flawlessly edited collection that includes a general introduction which discusses the ample connections between Schofield's work and the volume's papers.' Thornton C. Lockwood, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Verity Harte and Melissa Lane; Part I. The Vocabulary of Politics: 1. The political art in Plato's Republic Alexander Long; 2. Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia Cynthia Farrar; 3. Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch's Lycurgus Melissa Lane; 4. The body politic: Aëtius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia Jaap Mansfeld; 5. Latin philosophy and Roman law Miriam Griffin; Part II. The Practice of Politics: 6. The Platonic manufacture of ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood Robert Wardy; 7. Plato's politics of ignorance Verity Harte; 8. The political skill of Protagoras Nicholas Denyer; 9. Proclus and politics Jonathan Barnes; Part III. The Politics of Value: 10. Relativism in Plato's Protagoras Catherine Rowett; 11. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV Myles Burnyeat; 12. An aesthetic reading of Aristotle's Ethics Richard Kraut; 13. The Stoic sage in the original position Mary Margaret McCabe; Part IV. Politics Extended: Animals, Gods, Cosmology: 14. Aristotle on the natural sociability, skills and intelligence of animals Geoffrey Lloyd; 15. Gods and men in Xenophanes James Warren; 16. Socrates and his gods: from the Euthyphro to the Eudemian Ethics Christopher Rowe; 17. The atheist underground David Sedley; Malcolm Schofield bibliography, 1970–2012.
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Cambridge University Press NonViolence and the French Revolution
Book SynopsisContesting the centrality of violence in the French Revolution, Micah Alpaugh reveals instead the prevalence of non-violent tactics among the sans-culottes of Paris. Non-Violence and the French Revolution explores the rise of modern democratic protest methods and offers new interpretations of several of the French Revolution's most important events.Trade Review'Micah Alpaugh offers an important new perspective on the complex urban culture of eighteenth-century Paris, and on the French Revolution. Reading beyond the traditional narrative of violent confrontations, he shows us persuasively that such clashes were the exception rather than the rule, and that overt confrontation often came after the failure of authorities to respond to popular concerns expressed through the full panoply of a surprisingly modern culture of democratic engagement.' David Andress, University of Portsmouth'An impressively researched book that transforms our understanding of eighteenth-century protest and of the revolutionary process in Paris. A major contribution to the history of the French Revolution.' David Garrioch, Monash University, Australia'Non-Violence and the French Revolution challenges one of the central images of the French Revolution in the western imaginary. Micah Alpaugh shows us that the violent actions of the Parisian crowd need to be set in the context of a huge but largely hidden wave of popular protest and demonstration characterised essentially by non-violence. Placing the Parisian sans-culottes back at the centre of his analysis, this imaginative and striking study contributes significantly to a new social and political history of the Revolution.' Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London'Alpaugh gives us a fresh and compelling thesis about the essentially non-violent and almost continuous protest of the revolutionary years in Paris, a major contribution to our understanding of the roots of collective, participatory democracy.' Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne'It is a well-researched book that deserves to be widely read and debated … this book is a fine contribution to historical writing on the political life of the streets in Paris during the French Revolution.' Mark Jones, European Review of History'Alpaugh deploys his own impressive evidentiary base to portray protesters as rational actors experimenting with non-violent ways of participating in the political process, experiments that helped to shape contentious politics in the age of democratization.' Cynthia A. Bouton, American Historical Review'Alpaugh's book is a compelling riposte to those who have conceptualised the Revolution as essentially violent: but it is also a passionate reflection, drawing on a vast range of sources, on key global questions of revolution in the eighteenth century and today. This book demonstrates that there are many ways to do global history: the Paris sections - so richly documented, and so frequently analysed by scholars over the past century - serve here as a microcosm for thinking about the emergence of contentious politics and popular participatory democracy, with global implications.' Ian Coller, French History'Alpaugh has offered yet another empirical rebuttal to a thesis that has received disproportionate attention … [he] is to be commended for reminding us of the nonviolent nature and focused purposes of most Parisian political demonstrations during the Revolution.' Michael P. Fitzsimmons, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Marching in Paris, from the Old Regime to the Revolution; 2. Political demonstrations and the politics of escalation in 1789; 3. From rapprochement to radicalism, 1790–1; 4. War, collaborative protest, and the 1792 Republican movement; 5. Fraternal protest in a time of terror, August 1792–September 1793; 6. Reasserting collective action: 1794–5; 7. Moderate and conservative marches in Revolutionary Paris; Conclusion; Appendix: Parisian protests, 1787–95; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Nations The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
Book SynopsisWhat are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature, showing how culture fits into human evolution from as early as our aboriginal condition and, in conjunction with kinship, defines ethnicity and ethnic allegiances. From the rise of states and empires to the present day, this book sheds new light on the explosive nature of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as on their more liberating and altruistic roles in forging identity and solidarity.Trade Review'… the book provides a stimulating challenge, in particular in its historiographical survey of premodern nations … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.' P. J. Howe, Choice'Nations is a stimulating and valuable addition to the canon on nationalism. Gat's work will be valuable for seasoned scholars as well as students prepared to engage deeply with their source material.' Reviews in History (history.ac.uk/reviews)'Gat's motivation for writing this important book was his 'deep dissatisfaction' with the portrayal of nations and nationalism in much scholarly literature as 'recent and superficial' …' Jack Snyder, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of Contents1. Is nationalism recent and superficial?; 2. The evolution of kin-culture communities; 3. From tribes to statehood; 4. Premodern ethne, peoples, states and nations around the world; 5. Premodern Europe and the national state; 6. Modernity: nationalism released, transformed and enhanced; 7. State, national identity, ethnicity: normative and constitutional aspects; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Sociology of Theodor Adorno
Book SynopsisA lucid account of Theodor Adorno's perspectives on major components of sociology, including empirical and theoretical research. Matthias Benzer discusses several of Adorno's inquiries into specific sociological topics including sexual taboos, prejudice and aspects of daily life. This book will interest students and academics wishing to understand Adorno's sociological thinking.Trade Review'The work of Theodor Adorno is a major influence in several disciplines - but surprisingly marginal in sociology. This is a loss, because Adorno's work is rich with insight. Matthias Benzer not only makes Adorno's sometimes recondite writings clear, he shows the broad sociological perspective that informs his work.' Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University'A comprehensive, subtle exploration of Adorno's sociology. Benzer offers an illuminating study of Adorno's writings on a wide range of methodological and theoretical issues with riveting discussion of metaphysical experiences that he believed were untainted by an otherwise totally socialized, administered world.' George Cavalletto, Professor, City University of New York, and author of Crossing the Psycho-Social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias (2007).'A tremendous book which brings Adorno's sociology to life and subjects it to careful analysis as never before in the English speaking world. Benzer has produced a work of real importance.' Nick Crossley, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester'Benzer has provided us with a welcome, lucid and critical monograph, one that presents us with a much overdue stimulating exploration of Adorno's sociology, a basic component of any critical theory of society. This volume should be essential reading for those looking for a new and exciting analysis of one of the key figures in the tradition of critical social theory.' David Frisby, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics'This book does an excellent job in clarifying Adorno's sociological approach in all its complexity.' LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Nothing under the sun; 2. Sociological material; 3. Sociological reflection; 4. The socio-critical dimension; 5. The sociological text; 6. Sociology and the non-social; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The History Manifesto
Book SynopsisHow should historians speak truth to power and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history especially long-term history so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shift back to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing specialisation, which they argue is vital for the future of historical scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital age. It will provoke discussion among policymakers, activists and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers. This title is also available as OTrade Review'This is a very important and refreshing book. For too long, we have seen increasing specialization within historical research and between the disciplines of social sciences. Armitage and Guldi rightly plead for a return of the 'longue durée'. They call for more global, long-run and transdisciplinary approaches to big questions, including climate change, inequality and the future of capitalism. Their book will be an important milestone in this direction. A must-read.' Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics'This well-written, smart, deeply and broadly learned book is a bracing challenge to contemporary historiography. Critical of the loss of a sense of la longue durée and series, replaced by histories of the 'short term' and micro-scale since the 1970s, the authors argue that history has lost much of its public significance and usefulness. David Armitage and Jo Guldi have produced a rich history of the discipline as the foundation of a compelling plea for bringing forth more bigger and better histories into our civic life.' Thomas Bender, New York University'Guldi and Armitage make a compelling argument for the relevance of history, and for its potential as an antidote to the twin afflictions of short-term thinking and future prognostication based on poor or partial evidence. In a concise and clear book, they make renewed claims for the capacity of the past and its data, properly studied, to inform public policy and democratic debate on a wide range of issues from economic malfunction to climate change. They also throw out a challenge to academic historians to pull on, and perhaps break, some disciplinary shackles that have mentally fettered the profession for the better part of a century.' Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Ontario'How can we think seriously about our grandchildren's future if no one thinks on scales longer than a few years? Jo Guldi and David Armitage tell a rich and swashbuckling story of how historians are returning to big picture thinking, armed now with the rich insights of microhistory and the vast archives of big data. In the Age of the Anthropocene, they argue, it is vital that we know the past, and that we know it at very large scales.' David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney'History will always remain a craft with many workshops perfecting different traditions, but here is a fast-paced manifesto which urges the profession to focus on long-term questions and embrace ethical obligations to provide urgently needed perspectives on key dilemmas of our times. Its view of recent Anglo-American historiography as 'short-termist' and passionate plea that history can map out alternative possibilities for better societies will invite controversy and instantly invigorate classroom debates with a double shot.' Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge, and editor of A Concise Companion to History'An important attempt to make history relevant to a broad public, away from the narrow specialization which has dominated the historical profession to a long range nexus of past, present and future which places the present global crises of ecology and inequality in their historical context and takes into account the impact of digitalization on historical studies.' Georg G. Iggers, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York'An exhilarating anticipation of a digitised and globalised future, in which historians will assume the role of critical problem-solver. Guldi and Armitage argue that to do so, historians must recover their command of the longue durée and boldly apply their grasp of multi-causality to the dominant practical disciplines of the day.' John Tosh, University of Roehampton'In their timely and useful book, Armitage and Guldi have issued a call to arms. They urge historians to use their knowledge and skills to think big, to embrace long term thinking and the possibilities of digital technology. Above all they hope that an increasingly fragmented discipline can embrace its public role and take on, in an ethical, utopian spirit, some of the biggest issues of our time, such as inequality and climate change. They make a heartfelt plea for those who specialise in the past to make a major contribution to thinking about the future. Their manifesto for history as a critical social science deserves careful consideration both by those already persuaded of its public purpose and by those yet to embrace this generous view of the field.' Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University'Of all the many ways in which public policies and public debates today lack necessary perspective, perhaps the most important is their lack of historical perspective. In The History Manifesto David Armitage and Jo Guldi offer a ringing call not just for more knowledge of the past, but for the centrality of a broad and deep understanding of history to public knowledge itself.' Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science'Big problems meet big data in this compelling case for long-term thinking in the public sphere. Guldi and Armitage don't just chart a new course for the discipline of history, but for the uses of history across disciplines. I'm convinced: a return to the longue durée is theoretically sound, technologically feasible, politically imperative.' Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia'Ideas about big and deep histories have been recently flagged as ways historians could make their work speak to present concerns about human futures. This wide-ranging and spirited book not only provides the best discussion so far of these questions; by staking the very future of history on historians' capacity to shape public debates, Guldi and Armitage issue to fellow historians nothing short of a stirring call to action. A welcome and timely intervention.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago'Concise, impassioned and readable.' Paul Lay, Literary Review'For a very brief but enormously timely essay on why we need better ways of thinking about our past The History Manifesto is excellent. It demonstrates why we need history - in universities but also in public discourse - and wonders provocatively why governments second economists and the like to their service but never historians, who have a distinct responsibility to underline complexity of social causation, the need for long views and the dangers of narrating the past from inside one or another kind of silo.' Rowan Williams, New Statesman'This volume (deliberately named a 'manifesto') urges historians to reject short-time thinking as the overall temporal context of their works because it makes them unable to understand and appreciate modern long-time developments such as the despoilment of the earth and oceans, inequalities in international relations, and the impact of climatic changes. No less than a radical change away from short-time to long-time thinking will do. Universities and religions still have maintained long-time perspectives, but have done so under great negative pressures. During recent decades, historians' contributions have often disappointed expectations by remaining in the short term as they favored primarily academic (archival) narratives. Yet new scientific and digital technologies, with their ability to reach far back in time, clearly favored the long term, and the debate on time spans for history took on a new vitality. This informative section of the book, especially helpful with its extensive no'The book is an eminently readable and thought-provoking account of the broader repercussions of the various historical turns of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a helpful survey of recent work utilizing new methodologies for incorporating Big Data into historical research, and a healthy warning to students and scholars of history on the importance of relating their work to the big picture and broader public.' Hugh J. Turner, Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: the bonfire of the humanities?; 1. Going forward by looking back: the rise of the longue durée; 2. The short past: or, the retreat of the longue durée; 3. The long and the short: climate change, governance and inequality since the 1970s; 4. Big questions, big data; Conclusion: the public future of the past.
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Cambridge University Press The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Book SynopsisAimed at scholars and students of Latin literature and at those interested in space, security and dwelling across the humanities, this book presents an ambitious and detailed analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces (caves, corners, villas, bathrooms, bodies and prisons) in the context of expanding empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction: interior designs; 1. Empire without end: opening, expansion, enclosure; 2. All four corners of the world: Horace's enclaves; 3. Roman philosophy and the house of being: Seneca's Letters; 4. Blood, sweat and fears in the Roman baths; 5. Imperial enclosure, epic spectacle; 6. The homeless problem: exile, entrapment, desire.
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Cambridge University Press Empire and Modern Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization and empire. The creation of vast transcontinental empires and imperial trading networks played a key role in the development of modern European political thought. The rise of modern empires raised fundamental questions about virtually the entire contested set of concepts that lay at the heart of modern political philosophy, such as property, sovereignty, international justice, war, trade, rights, transnational duties, civilization and progress. From Renaissance republican writings about conquest and liberty to sixteenth-century writings about the Spanish conquest of the Americas through Enlightenment perspectives about conquest and global commerce and nineteenth-century writings about imperial activities both within and outside of Europe, these essays survey the central moral and political questions occasioned by the development of oversTrade Review'… this book consists of twelve carefully written and tightly argued essays that add up to more than the sum of their parts … the study of modern imperialism will oblige political scientists (and historians) to move outside our comfort zones, and to embrace approaches that are expedient, eclectic and trans-disciplinary. This fine volume should work as a catalyst, stimulating and facilitating further work as the enterprise it surveys moves ahead.' Theodore Koditschek, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Machiavelli's three desires: Florentine republicans on liberty, empire, and justice Mikael Hörnqvist; 2. Conquest and the just war: the 'School of Salamanca' and the 'affair of the Indies' Anthony Pagden; 3. Alliances with infidels in the European imperial expansion Richard Tuck; 4. John Locke: theorist of empire? David Armitage; 5. Montesquieu on empire and enlightenment Michael Mosher; 6. Edmund Burke on empire, self-understanding and sympathy Uday S. Mehta; 7. Adam Smith in the British empire Emma Rothschild; 8. Conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment political thought Sankar Muthu; 9. Liberalism, nation, and empire: the case of J. S. Mill Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 10. Republicanism, liberalism, and empire in post-revolutionary France Jennifer Pitts; 11. Colonies and empire in the political thought of Hegel and Marx Gabriel Paquette; 12. Social theory in the age of empire Karuna Mantena; 13. Political theory of empire and imperialism: an appendix Jennifer Pitts.
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Cambridge University Press Barbarism and Religion Volume 6 Barbarism Triumph in the West
Book SynopsisThis is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.Trade Review'By uniting civil with ecclesiastical histories, and by describing narratives of antiquity created by, and in a world on the brink of, revolutionary change, Pocock concludes his sixth volume in scholarly territory initially explored by the pioneering work of Arnaldo Momigliano and Franco Venturi, to both of whom the first volume of Barbarism and Religion was dedicated. In his end is his beginning; where Pocock's uniquely authoritative contribution to historical scholarship magisterially concludes, that of many others will surely follow.' B. W. Young, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Constantinian Empire: 1. Constantinople: a new city and a new history; 2. Constantine to Julian: the disintegration of a dynasty; Part II. The Church in the Empire: 3. Constantine's second revolution; 4. Theology and the problems of authority; 5. Nicaea and its aftermath; 6. The reign of Constantius and the Arian triumph; 7. The structure of chapter 21; Part III. The Interlude of Julian: 8. Gibbon and Julian: the history of an anomaly; 9. Julian apostate: the failure of an alternative; 10. Julian as persecutor: from toleration to the failure of repression; 11. The sojourn at Antioch and the Persian disaster; Part IV. Barbarism: The First Catastrophe: 12. Valentinian I and Valens: the turn to the west; 13. The geography and history of the western Decline and Fall; Part V. The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Last Emperor: 14. The reign of Theodosius: triumphs preceding disaster; 15. Ambrose of Milan: the church and the empire; 16. Theodosius narrated and re-narrated: the death and rebirth of polytheism; Part VI. The Barbarisation of the West; 17. The Gothic phase: the sack of Rome and the loss of the transalpine west; 18. Vandals and Huns: the twin empires and the loss of Africa; 19. Attila and Aetius: the Hun invasions of the west; 20. The end of the western succession; Part VII. After the Fall: Towards a History Not Written: 21. Ends and beginnings: the conclusion of Gibbon's third volume; 22. The barbarian kingdoms and their laws: the beginnings of a mediaeval history; 23. The general observations; 24. Gibbon's first trilogy and its successor volumes; Conclusion of the present series; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis of German Historicism
Book SynopsisHannah Arendt and Leo Strauss were two of the twentieth century's most influential and compelling political philosophers. Liisi Keedus explores how their shared background in Weimar Germany shaped their intellectual preoccupations, unravelling striking similarities, and genuine antagonisms, between the two thinkers.Trade Review'This insightful and well-researched book reads like a thriller. True to its title, the book covers the responses of Arendt and Strauss to the German historical school and to the historicized philosophy of the Weimar years. It also deals with the situation that Arendt and Strauss faced as Jews in Germany during those years. But the book is not limited to these topics nor is it limited to the early years of Arendt and Strauss … Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and above.' Choice'There is much from which one can learn in this book. Keedus has read broadly in the intellectual and political debates in Germany in the early twentieth century. Learning about the contemporary cultural impact of a Friedrich Gogarten or a Karl Barth is interesting in its own right, and the sense of cultural crisis associated with such thinkers is relevant to the political philosophies later articulated by Arendt and Strauss … Keedus's book offers the paradox of a historicist treatment of thinkers who (as her own argument highlights) rebelled against historicism.' Ronald Beiner, The Review of Politics'I believe the great merit of the book consists in broadening the scope of themes and authors to which and whom Strauss and Arendt have related and in introducing much new source material.' Wout Cornelissen, History of Political ThoughtTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The untimely generation; 2. The problem of politics in Arendt's and Strauss' early writings; 3. History and political understanding: an ambivalent symbiosis; 4. Liberalism and modernity: rethinking the question of the 'proud'; 5. Retrieving the problem of theoria and praxis: the antagonisms; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Naturalism and Unbelief in France 16501729
Book SynopsisAlthough atheism is a rising subject of interest today, the history of the possibility and emergence of atheism is less studied. This book will be of great interest to academics and non-academics with interests in free thought, theology, French culture, early modern Europe and the dissemination of ideas.Trade Review'… indispensable … sure to fruitfully inspire many historians for years to come.' Jeffrey D. Burson, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From nature to God; 2. Reading the ancients and reading Spinoza; 3. Reductio ad naturalismum; 4. The passion of Malebranche; 5. Creation and evil; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Spinozas Ethics
Book SynopsisBringing together an international and diverse team of authors, this book makes use of cutting-edge research to provide new perspectives on Spinoza's masterpiece, addressing issues including identity, rationality, and freedom. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of modern philosophy, metaphysics, and Jewish thought.Trade Review'This new Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics offers an extensive, thought-provoking, and up-to-date state of the scholarly conversation that surrounds one of Spinoza's most studied masterpieces.' Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction Yitzhak Y. Melamed; 1. The indiscernability of identicals and the transitivity of identity in Spinoza's logic of the attributes Don Garrett; 2. Spinoza and Maimonides on teleology and anthropocentrism Warren Zev Harvey; 3. Two puzzles about thought and identity in Spinoza John Morrison; 4. Spinoza and the mark of the mental Martin Lin; 5. The 'physical' interlude Alison Peterman; 6. The causes of our belief in free will: Spinoza on necessary, 'innate', yet false, cognition Yitzhak Melamed; 7. Conatus John Carriero; 8. Scientia intuitiva in the Ethics Kristin Primus; 9. Causa conscientiae' in Spinoza's Ethics Lia Levy; 10. Spinoza on the association of affects and the workings of the human mind Lisa Shapiro; 11. The terminology of the affects in Ethics parts three through five Pina Totaro; 12. Moral realism in Spinoza's Ethics Colin Marshall; 13. Spinoza and the metaphysics of perfection Samuel Newlands; 14. The free man and the free market: ethics, politics, and economics in Spinoza's Ethics IV Beth Lord; 15. Spinoza and the power of reason Michael LeBuffe.
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Cambridge University Press The Viennese Students of Civilization
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the work of the Austrian economists, including Carl Menger, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, has been narrowly interpreted. Through a study of Viennese politics and culture, it is demonstrated that the project they were engaged in was much broader: the study of civilization.Trade Review'… a brilliant exploration of the historical, scientific, philosophical and cultural context of the Austrian School of economics … Any reader fascinated by intellectual history and the play between idealizations and circumstances will find Dekker's approach very illuminating.' Peter Boettke, George Mason University, Virginia'Erwin Dekker's thoughtful book firmly situates the so-called 'Austrian School' of economics within its Viennese background, showing its members can be better thought of as students of civilization than as disciplinary economists … The Viennese Students of Civilization is to be welcomed as an important contribution to twentieth-century intellectual economic history and current political thought.' Haaro Mass, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland'In this thoughtful account of interwar Vienna and the Austrian tradition, Erwin Dekker reveals a humanistic scholarly sensibility quite rare amongst historians of economics. He adroitly interweaves the exploration of economics, sensibility and culture, yielding a book that will appeal to a correspondingly broad readership.' Robert Leonard, Université du Québec à Montréal'Dekker's volume opens up many interesting historiographic questions and suggests many compelling research paths. By arguing that even the logical-deductive theorists of the Austrian School shared many insights in the development of society and the political role of economists, the book proves to be an effective manifesto in favour of studying economics and economic thought from a cultural point of view. It thus constitutes a useful reading for students in economics and history.' Monika Poettinger, History of Economic Ideas'Dekker, currently an assistant professor of cultural economics at Rotterdam, is well aware of the challenge presented by the wealth of literature, and also of the multiple challenges presented by the 150 years of the Austrian School's history … And he handles the challenges elegantly and successfully. … Dekker provides numerous highly innovative interpretations about several Austrian economists as well as about the tradition as a whole - and often does so provocatively, which makes his story refreshing and energizing. … he offers a volume which is equally well readable for a historian of economics, for an economist curious to learn more about the 'Austrians', and for the interested layman. … he not only supplies insightful fragments of historical value, but also an overarching narrative which is highly relevant for our age's economy and society with their recent symptoms of instability and fragility.' Stefan Kolev, ORDO'Dekker provides an insightful account of Viennese intellectual culture and its role in shaping Austrian Economics during its formative decades. His focus upon local academic networks is a very productive and original approach to this field, and references to contemporary Viennese literature add analytical value to this.' Alexander Ebner, The European Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Cultivating economic knowledge; 3. Trapped between ignorance, customs and social forces; 4. The market - civilizing or disciplinary force?; 5. Instincts, civilization and communities; 6. Therapeutic nihilism or the humility of the student; 7. The student as defender of civilization; 8. The student of civilization and his culture; 9. Meaning lost, meaning found; 10. What it means to be a student of civilization.
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Cambridge University Press Condorcet Political Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisNicolas de Condorcet (1743â1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world history and express the hopes of that time in the future perfectibility of man. This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-known writings on the emancipation of women, the abolition of slavery, the meanings of freedom and despotism and reflections on revolutionary violence. The introduction by Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati sets these works in context and shows why Condorcet is of real interest today as we reinterpret the meaning of Enlightenment, the very idea of progress and the founding ideas of social democracy.Table of ContentsEditors' introduction; Published works by Condorcet; Suggestions for further reading; Principal events in Condorcet's life; Notes on the texts; 1. The Sketch; 2. On slavery; 3. On the emancipation of women; 4. On despotism; 5. On freedom; 6. On revolution; 7. Advice to his daughter and testament; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The World of MR Casaubon
Book SynopsisWhile the efforts of George Eliot's fictional Mr Casaubon to create a 'Key to All Mythologies' may seem fruitless and obscure, Colin Kidd's interdisciplinary study excavates Casaubon's hinterland and illuminates the fierce ideological war which raged over the use of pagan myths to defend Christianity from radical Enlightenment thought.Trade Review'Behind this excellent study of the history of mythography in Britain lies an ingenious starting point: the 'hobby horse' of George Eliot's dried-up pedant and seeker of the 'Key to All Mythologies' in Middlemarch the Revd Edward Casaubon … Colin Kidd's achievement is to have made an impressively wide-ranging and readable contribution to the immensely complex history of the subject that caught the Revd Edward Casaubon in its net.' Rosemary Ashton, The Times Literary Supplement'Kidd's sprightly style can breathe life into apparently dead disputes. He makes a particularly touching case for Jacob Bryant, whose hefty A New System of Ancient Mythology (1774–76) was the closest thing to a prototype of Casaubon's project.' Rosemary Hill, The Guardian'The World of Mr Casaubon is an important insight into an early modern and nineteenth-century intellectual tradition - and a valuable explanation of why Eliot wished to give this tradition such a bruising.' Richard Fallon, The British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of Contents1. Prologue: Casaubon's dubious bequest; 2. The key to all mythologies; 3. The legacies of the ancients in Enlightenment mythography; 4. The obsessions of Jacob Bryant: Arkite idolatry and the quest for Troy; 5. The dispute of the Orient: Anglo-French rivalries in an Age of Revolution; 6. Fish-gods, floods and serpent-worship: from apologetics to anthropology; 7. Epilogue: the keys to all mythology in 1872.
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Cambridge University Press Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb
Book SynopsisThis book is the first sustained effort at investigating the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period and argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory.Trade Review'A labor of admirable erudition, this book by Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb establishes a new standard for the intellectual history of Islam in general and for Ottoman intellectual history in particular. By focusing on the hitherto unexplored technical arguments of the textual traditions and by deftly placing them within the larger systems in which they developed, the author goes far beyond previous studies of Ottoman intellectual history that concerned themselves primarily with the social, cultural and legal locations of ideas. The history of ideas has finally taken center stage in Islamic studies as the guiding principle of intellectual history. This is pioneering work.' Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley'A book like this would rank as a fine piece of scholarship in the intellectual history of any time and place. For the Islamic world of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, it transforms the field almost beyond recognition.' Michael Cook, Princeton University'Khaled El-Rouayheb's Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century is a most welcome contribution to an understudied subject and period, which sets out to challenge many preconceived notions of intellectual and scientific sclerosis. The author sets a perfect example as to how a period stigmatized by such negative perceptions should be investigated. Rather than seeking some Islamic 'Renaissance' or 'Enlightenment', he simply sets out to look at which significant works were produced during the period that contradict this general opinion, in order to understand the dynamics of reflection, transmission, inspiration and emulation in an interconnected Ottoman/Islamic world. The result is a meticulous and fascinating intellectual history enriched by textual and network analysis.' Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University'In Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century, Khaled El-Rouayheb probes taḥqīq or 'verification', whether based on dialectic, deep reading, or mystical illumination. In the process, he uncovers a vibrant intellectual world throughout the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and beyond. This is a groundbreaking work on the Islamic intellectual history of the early modern period.' Th. Emil Homerin, University of Rochester'Khaled El-Rouayheb's groundbreaking study deals with Islamic intellectual history in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa during the seventeenth century - a century that was until now thought to be devoid of any intellectual achievements worth mentioning. … Both the geographical scope of this book and its analytical depth set an entirely new benchmark for any future study of Islamic intellectual thought in the so-called post-classical period.' Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies'Although El-Rouayheb views his book as being a humble step toward discovering the still largely unknown intellectual world of the Ottomans, his book may be regarded as a candidate for a 'cornerstone' work in the field of Ottoman intellectual history, for it sets an example for new studies that will be carried out with this kind of academic maturity.' Nazif Muhtaroðlu, Nazariyat'[This book] is a reliable and accessible work of scholarship. El-Rouayheb's writing is quite analytical and lucid, and his research is astute and trustworthy … reading Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century is a must for those studying Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. The book as a whole or in part is recommended as a textbook as well for courses in these areas.' Mustafa Yavuz, Dîvân: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies'El-Rouayheb's book, which is based on some of his previously published works, critically engages with the widely shared view among some contemporary Muslim and Western historians that the 17th century Muslim world was characterised by an acute education and intellectual stagnation and decline.' Abdullah Sahin, The Muslim World Book Review'El-Rouayheb has produced a fascinating work that presents the early modern period as one of great intellectual vitality, with ideas and intellectual movements swirling from Morocco to Indonesia. He introduces us to a wide variety of figures, many of whom have been lost to history for all but the most determined of scholarly researchers.' John J. Curry, Journal of Ottoman Studies'This is an important book. … one that scholars of the early modern period will no doubt read avidly. … In its nuances and detailed reading of the long seventeenth century, El-Rouayheb's book contains numerous insights into the significance and nature of both earlier and later periods and should be read by intellectual historians of Islam, regardless of the period in which they specialize.' Justin Stearns, Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsPart I. 'The Path of the Kurdish and Persian Verifying Scholars': 1. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences; 2. A discourse of method: the evolution of ādāb al-bahth; 3. The rise of 'deep reading'; Part II. 'Saving Servants from the Yoke of Imitation': 4. Maghrebi 'theologian-logicians' in Egypt and the Hejaz; 5. The condemnation of 'imitation' (taqlīd); 6. Al-Hasan al-Yūsī and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco; Part III. 'The Imams of Those Who Proclaim the Unity of Existence': 7. The spread of mystical monism; 8. Monist mystics and neo-Hanbalī traditionalism; 9. In defense of wahdat al-wujūd.
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Cambridge University Press Leibniz An Intellectual Biography
Book SynopsisOf all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646â1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous endeavours, Antognazza reveals a single master project lending unity to his extraordinarily multifaceted life's work. Throughout the vicissitudes of his long life, Leibniz tenaciously pursued the dream of a systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences. As well as tracing the threads of continuity that bound these theoretical and practical activities to this all-embracing plan, this illuminating study also traces these threads back into the intellectual traditions of the Holy Roman Empire in which Leibniz lived and throughout the broader intellectual networks that linked him to patrons in countries as distaTrade ReviewReviews of the hardback: This is a superbly crafted and exhaustively researched account of the development of Leibniz's thought … It is an extraordinary achievement, for the task of writing an intellectual biography of Leibniz is huge. This is a work of unparalleled scholarship that is certain to remain the standard source on its subject for many years to come.' Journal of the History of Philosophy'Maria Rosa Antognazza's biography fills, splendidly, one of the major gaps in the literature on Leibniz. It is a magisterial scholarly biography, richly documented with copious citations of the original texts now available.' The Leibniz Review'A meticulously researched and eloquently written biography that will be both an indispensable reference for scholars of Leibniz's thought and the definitive account of his intellectual development for many years to come.' Canadian Journal of History'A scholarly tour de force … I regard [Antognazza's] work as a monumental and lasting contribution to Leibniz scholarship, one that will be read by every serious student of Leibniz.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Antognazza richly fulfils the reader's hope of having received the definitive intellectual biography of Leibniz for our time.' The Heythrop Journal'An intellectual biography that is faultless from all points of view and places Leibniz's thought very precisely in the philosophical, scientific, political and theological context of his time.' Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review'A biography of the greatest value which manages to be an indispensable tool for specialists and, at the same time, a wide-ranging introduction to be recommended to those who approach for the first time the thought of such a complex philosopher.' Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana'This is an impressive work, written in a flowing narrative that even someone not versed in calculus, natural history, theology or philosophy will find enthralling.' Reference and Research Book News'[Antognazza] has re-evaluated all the sources and constructed a lively and thoroughly documented story that is unlikely to be seriously challenged, even on matters of detail. She has also done her best to turn the facts of this life-that-was-not-one into a coherent narrative.' London Review of Books'… extensive and detailed … the unique feature of this book is that it provides clear and interesting details about his mathematical research and the later dipute over priority with the Newtonians.' Zentralblatt MATH'… the book is first-rate; the level of detail and its relation to Leibniz's various intellectual projects is appropriate and useful. For early modern scholars, this biography will serve as a vital reference work.' HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Youthful Vocations (1646–76): 1. The birth of a vision: background, childhood, and education (July 1646–March 1667); 2. The vision broadens: Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz (March 1667–March 1672); 3. Old wine in new bottles: Paris, London, and Holland (March 1672–December 1676); Part II. Dreams and Reality (1676–1716): 4. A universal genius as librarian, historian, and mining engineer: Hanover and Lower Saxony (December 1676–October 1687); 5. In the footsteps of the Guelfs: southern Germany, Austria, and Italy (November 1687–June 1690); 6. Back under the Guelf Dukes: Hanover and Wolfenbüttel (June 1690–February 1698); 7. Between brother and sister: Hanover and Berlin (February 1698–February 1705); 8. Light and shadows: Hanover, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, Vienna (February 1705–September 1714); 9. Epilogue: last years in Hanover (September 1714–November 1716).
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Cambridge University Press Politics in the Roman Republic Key Themes in
Book SynopsisThe politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It begins by explaining the development of the Roman constitution over time before turning to the practical functioning of the Republic, focusing particularly on the role of the populus Romanus and the way its powers were expressed in the popular assemblies. Henrik Mouritsen concludes by exploring continuity and change in Roman politics as well as the process by which the republican system was eventually replaced by monarchy. This original and readable book will be important for all students and scholars of Roman history and of politics in general.Table of Contents1. Senatus Populusque Romanus: institutions and practices; 2. Leaders and masses in the Roman Republic; 3. Consensus and competition; Bibliographic essay.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Book SynopsisAnyone interested in the history of logic, and the history of philosophy more generally, will greatly benefit from this volume which focuses on an extremely rich period in the history of logic: the medieval period. A must-read for students as well as scholars of the history of philosophy.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Introduction Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Stephen Read; Part I. Periods and Traditions: 1. The legacy of ancient logic in the Middle Ages Julie Brumberg-Chaumont; 2. Arabic logic up to Avicenna Ahmad Hasnawi and Wilfrid Hodges; 3. Arabic logic after Avicenna Khaled El-Rouayheb; 4. Latin period up to 1200 Ian Wilks; 5. Logic in the Latin thirteenth century Sara L. Uckelman and Henrik Lagerlund; 6. Logic in the Latin West in the fourteenth century Stephen Read; 7. The post-medieval period E. Jennifer Ashworth; Part II. Themes: 8. Logica vetus Margaret Cameron; 9. Supposition and properties of terms Christoph Kann; 10. Propositions: their meaning and truth Laurent Cesalli; 11. Sophisms and insolubles Mikko Yrjönsuuri and Elizabeth Coppock; 12. The syllogism and its transformations Paul Thom; 13. Consequence Gyula Klima; 14. The logic of modality Riccardo Strobino and Paul Thom; 15. Obligationes Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Sara L. Uckelman; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History
Book SynopsisJoseph Mali reveals how four major modern thinkers the French historian Jules Michelet, the Irish writer James Joyce, the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin were inspired by Vico's New Science (1744) to create their own modern theories and stories of human life and history.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Jules Michelet: Vico and the origins of nationalism; 3. James Joyce: Vico and the origins of modernism; 4. Erich Auerbach: Vico and the origins of historicism; 5. Isaiah Berlin: Vico and the origins of pluralism; 6. Conclusion.
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